From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs daemon doesn't terminate on SIGTERM any more
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:40:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xfiq0sda6v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC2A3DB.2090904@swipnet.se> ("Jan Djärv"'s message of "Sat\, 23 Oct 2010 10\:59\:07 +0200")
Jan Djärv wrote:
> This was done so that kill-emacs-hook is run. For example, desktop.el
> will then save its desktop when logging out from Gnome/KDE.
>
> What Emacs needs is some sort of notion of when user interaction is
> not OK. For SIGTERM it is almost never ok, as it might be the window
> manager/system/whatever that is shutting down. Even desktop.el will
> try to ask questions sometimes (i.e. desktop-save is set but there is
> no desktop file yet), which is annoying. Maybe introduce some
> interaction-ok-p predicate?
Things that might ask questions should be on kill-emacs-query-functions,
not kill-emacs-hook, shouldn't they?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-23 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-22 8:35 Emacs daemon doesn't terminate on SIGTERM any more Ulrich Mueller
2010-10-22 22:51 ` Ulrich Mueller
2010-10-23 8:59 ` Jan Djärv
2010-10-23 18:40 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2010-10-24 8:48 ` Jan Djärv
2010-10-24 9:17 ` Ulrich Mueller
2010-10-24 10:05 ` Jan Djärv
2010-10-24 19:41 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-24 16:06 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-25 5:42 ` Jan Djärv
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